March 18.
Ir was hardly to be expected that in the searching criticism to which all modern schools are exposed the school of journalism should escape attention. Strictly speaking there is, of course, no school of journal~ ism as there is of medicine or the law. Occasionally we come across advertisements by self-styled professors ofthe art, " easily enabling pupils to earn from £500 to £1,000 per annum by writing for the newspapers and magazin and we wonder vaguely why these professors do not keep their secrets for their own. advantage, unless we are to believe that instraction in journalism is paid than the conventional branches
able training-ground prepared for of teaching. But there is no define the Fourth Estate but chat which the life of a journalist itself provides no clear course which one already old in the game should recommend to the youthful aspirant to lead him into those hierarchies of omniscienve where he would be. Instead, we have to admit the paradox of a
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